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Brand: Small items
A heat formed and bound rattan cane hanger from Finland, hand produced by the crafts people of a Vaanta based visually impaired workers co-operative. Rattan is a kind of climbing palm or vine the cultivation of which is being encouraged by some conservationists as a means of preserving the forest gr..
£12.00
Ex Tax:£10.00
Brand: ANNANSILMAT-AITTA
A small long bristled ‘moustachioed’ sink brush of boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a micros..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Oversize items
A stripped rattan carpet-beater, hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. Triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, measures approximately 70cm by 27cm across the head...
£42.50
Ex Tax:£35.42
Brand: Oversize items
Stripped rattan carpet-beaters hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. In two sizes, the larger (Carpet beater no.2) is triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, whilst the small..
Brand: Small items
A fairly soft hand brush made with an untreated beech handle, hand stitched with dark horse hair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. With a turned handle, and a hole for hanging. Just over 30cm overall length...
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
Brand: Small items
A stiff looped scrubbing whisk made of rice root — the stripped and dried roots of zatacon, a Mexican desert grass. These makes excellent pot scrubbers, with a light scouring action, but are also highly effective at removing mud from amongst the tread of winter boots or wellies. Hand bound with flax..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Small items
A fairly soft hand brush made with a pine tar treated birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark horse hair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. As well as granting the brush its distinctive dark looks pin..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
A hand bound dushbrush of blackened boreal birch stitched to 40% dark horsehair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. The blackening of the birch helps provide improved water resistance, as well as disguising any stains the wood might in time develop..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Small items
With a stock shaped from boreal birch, the shorter fibres are of light coloured tampico (harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert). The longer dark arenga (a type of palm fibre traditionally used for the most hardwearing nautical rope) is slightly stiffer, to reach and clean betwe..
£17.00
Ex Tax:£14.17
Brand: Small items
Perhaps one of the most ancient of brush designs, and one which has been slowly perfected through millennia of binding, weaving, and tying. Made only of rice straw (sorghum) wound with red twine on the body, and wire on the neck, secured to a small pin, creating a comfortably ergonomic handle made f..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Small items
A traditional Finnish fire-formed rattan hook with a hand-carved grip, used for reaching backwards over one's shoulder to press out and massage knots amidst the muscles of the upper back. Simply locate the end of the hook upon a muscular knot or tight area, and pull forward to ease tightness. Rattan..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A long-handled body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, hand stitched with soft black horsehair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently st..
£31.50
Ex Tax:£26.25
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, and hand stitched with light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate, clean,..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, and hand stitched with soft black horse hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate,..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A body brush with a birch stock and hand stitched with soft light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulate, clean, and exfoliate the skin. Best rinsed and left to dry be..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A very simple and traditional potato smasher from Finland made from turned and sanded but untreated Baltic birch. Shaped like a sharply truncated cudgel or soft-ball bat, the smasher is simply used as any masher might be, pushed down onto and into already boiled potatoes. Handmade by the craftspeopl..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Oversize items
The Siiliharja — hedgehog — is a long bristled birch and union blend (bass and tampico) elegantly curved hand broom from Finland, where it might typically be used to brush snow, ice, dirt, dust, and mud from clothes, boots, and entrance stairs. The vegetable fibre bistles are tough, water resistant,..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Small items
A 'V' shaped scrubbing brush of oiled boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically bar..
£11.50
Ex Tax:£9.58
Brand: Small items
A longer handled and larger headed hand broom made with a birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests hand stitched with dark horse hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. In Finland where low relative humidity and extreme cold helps..
£32.00
Ex Tax:£26.67
Brand: Small items
A log or blanket storage basket, hand woven of birch strips of between five and seven centimetres width using methods thought to have been in use throughout the Fennoscandian Peninsula since before recorded history. From a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Measuring about 50cm front to ..
£100.00
Ex Tax:£83.33
Brand: Small items
Perhaps one of the most ancient of brush designs, and one which has been slowly perfected through millennia of binding, weaving, and tying. Made only of rice straw (sorghum) wound by flax twine and with a wooden peg driven into the handle to tighten and secure the fibres, the brush possesses a simpl..
£22.50
Ex Tax:£18.75
Brand: Oversize items
A heat and water resistant hand stitched broom of arenga fibre - from the trunks of a sugar palm native to maritime Southeast Asia - fixed within a stock of slow growing boreal birch. Originally for cleaning ovens, hearths, and chimneys (arenga withstands high temperatures well) the brush is ideall..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
A hand stitched yard broom or scrubber of bassine, a course and hardwearing Indian palm fibre, held with stainless steel wire in an oiled stock (and handle) of slow growing boreal birch. With excellent water resistance the brush makes an ideal outdoor broom, for patios, driveways, and hard rough sur..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A nailbrush of oil treated maple and tampico fibre hand-stitched in Sweden. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically barbed surface, which helps hold water for more effective cleaning, and l..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Brand: Small items
A medium stiff scrubbing whisk, or small hand brooms made of black arenga fibre harvested without felling from the trunks of sugar palms. Slightly softer than the other small whisk brushes these make excellent general washing up and vegetable scrubbers, as well as small stiff brooms for brushing dri..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
A raw unstripped steam bent willow and golden tampico fibre dish brush handmade by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically barbed..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: ANNANSILMAT-AITTA
A long handled giant’s toothbrush shaped bath-tub brush of boreal birch and tampico fibre hand-stitched by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have ..
£21.00
Ex Tax:£17.50
Brand: Small items
A long-handled body brush with a boreal birch stock soaked in pine tar as a protective and preservative, hand stitched with light cow hair bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Used more or less vigorously either during bathing or saunas to gently stimulat..
£31.50
Ex Tax:£26.25
Brand: Small items
A body brush with an oiled birch stock cut from slow growing Fennoscandian boreal forests, and hand stitched with horse hair blend bristles by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. This brush is ever so slightly stiffer than our long standing Swedish Iris Hantverk bat..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Oversize items
Stripped rattan carpet-beaters hand formed and bound by the visually impaired craftspeople of a Vantaa based Finnish cooperative. In two sizes, the larger (Carpet beater no.2) is triple braided for stiffness and good for heavier rugs, moveable carpets, and thicker tapestry blankets, whilst the small..
£22.00
Ex Tax:£18.33
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